Interpreting the Viking Age
March 31, 2016
This blog post was written by Judith Jesch, Professor of Viking Studies in the School of English. The Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland, was conquered by Vikings in the ninth century, and it was ruled by Viking and Norse kings until the thirteenth century. It is now a self-governing Crown …
The Viking Berserker
March 11, 2014
This blog post was written by PhD student Ruarigh Dale, who has just submitted his PhD theory on this topic. The meaning of berserkr Publicity for the current Viking exhbition at the British Museum invites potential visitors to ‘go berserk’. The meaning of modern English ‘berserk(er)’ can be traced to the thirteenth-century Icelander Snorri Sturluson, …
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